Johanna Myllyharju#
| Membership Number: | 5597 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.oulu.fi/university/focusarea/lifelong-health/spearhead-projects/myllyharju |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7772-1250 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland
- 2019 - 2020 Chair of the Board, Academy of Finland - The Research Council of Finland
- 2010 - 2018 Director, Biocenter Oulu - the Focus Institute of the strategic research focus area Lifelong Health, University of Oulu, Finland
- 2017 - 2018 Director of Fibrosis Diseasome, a strategic profiling research area of University of Oulu, Finland
- 2015 - 2019 Principal Investigator, Infrafrontier-FI, Finnish partnership in the EU Infrafrontier ESFRI
- 2012 - 2017 Vice Director, Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in Cell-Extracellular Matrix Research, University of Oulu, Finland
- 2010 - 2012 Head, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oulu, Finland
- 2008 - 2009 1st Vice Director (Research), Institute of Biomedicine, University of Oulu, Finland
- 2002 - 2007 Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oulu, Finland
- 1999 - 2002 Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oulu, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Hypoxia
- Extracellular matrix
- Collagen
- Lysyl hydroxylase
- Prolyl hydroxylase
- Hypoxia response
- Lysyl oxidase
- Hypoxia-inducible factor
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2018 Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 2015 Hans Kupczyk Guest Professorship Award, University of Ulm, Germany
